AmeSachi

The Qing Jing Peak Lord.

I climb the western tower in silence, the moon like a sickle.

Clear autumn is locked in the deep courtyard, where a wutong tree stands lonely.

Sorrowful parting has cut, but not severed our ties; my mind is still wild.

Separation is just like a taste in head and heart.

Oof will need to redraw them but trying to ease back into drawing for myself since I’ve been extremely busy under contract work along with my day job.

There's no real concept of plurality on a word by word level. How you indicate multiples of something is dependent on context, register, grammatical structure of the rest of the sentence etc.

师弟们走了 | Shi di men zou le

"The shidi have left" -- "men" can be used here to indicate or emphasize that there are multiple shidi(s)

师弟全都走了 | Shi di quan dou zou le

“All the shidi have left" -- note there is no "men" here. "All" already tells you there are multiple shidi involved, so there's no need to say that again. I guess you can add a "men" here and it wouldn't technically be wrong, but it'd sound awkward.

三个师弟走了 | San ge shi di zou le

"Three shidi have left" -- the "three" already indicates multiple. You absolutely cannot add a "men" here.

众师弟已走 | Zhong shi di yi zou

"The shidi have left," but in a more formal/literary register. "Zhong" or 众 means "many people". People = 人, so 众 is literally 3 ppl stacked together lol.

And he raised his eyebrow at me. We'd been discussing addictive medications a few minutes before, like the Tramadol I finally got from the pain specialist to take once a week or so to give me a break from my chronic pain, so I reassured him that methylpenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) is not addictive (at least not in people with ADHD).

His response? To raise his eyebrow even harder and say "Well it sure SOUNDS like it's addictive!"

And I had to explain to this man - who works in a healthcare related job by the way - that just because medication makes you feel good and helps you, just because you look forward to taking it, that doesn't make it addictive or dangerous. And he wasn't convinced.

The simple fact that I was excited to take a daily pill that has literally changed my life, after decades of fighting to get that medication, made him think I shouldn't be taking it so often. That it must inherently be dangerous.

I'm not even in America, but I'm pretty sure this attitude began there and then spread over here to Europe. This Puritan idea of "if something feels good, you must beware of it. Pleasure is dangerous, it is sinful, it is addiction, it is evil."

I know too many people who subconsciously believe that pleasure = addictive = dangerous = bad. Joy is a slippery slope to hell.

So here is your reminder for today that you don't need to be afraid of feeling good. If something improves your life, use it. Even if it is addictive - learn what that addiction means, whether the addiction is inherently dangerous or not, and whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks and risks.

My ADHD meds are, in fact, not addictive. But I will take them every day because they make my life orders of magnitude easier. I will enjoy them every time I take them.

My tramadol is addictive. I will still take it. I will keep it on a schedule to avoid becoming addicted, primarily because addiction in this case would mean reduced effectiveness. But I am not afraid of my painkillers. They are life changing.

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DMC Color Key: ■ 3750 Antique Blue Very Dark ■ 3840 Lavender Blue Light ■ 3842 Wedgewood Very Dark

Dimensions: 139 by 79 stitches. Font: 'pepminus10.ttf' by Peplum. Border: Adapted from Elizabeth Holland's sampler, 1737.